[Leica] HBC Quote

[Craig Semetko <csemetko@earthlink.net>]

Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:25:39 +0100
From: "Robert Appleby Personal" <rob@robertappleby.com>
Subject: [Leica] Re: HCB quote
Message-ID: <000e01c0afa6$8f77d100$17a1abd4@computer>
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:53:10 -0700
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Subject: RE: [Leica] HCB quote
Message-ID: <LNBBLBNFHNEHGFKFMALGMEIGLKAA.tim@KairosPhoto.com>
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I think it was Phillipe Halsman

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of GERALD
> HAUSSLER
> Sent: March 16, 2001 7:39 PM
> To: leica-users; csemetko
> Subject: [Leica] HCB quote
>
>
>
>      Craig;
>
>      ...and along the same lines, was it HCB who likened his
>      entry into professional photography thusly; (paraphrasing)
>      "...i got started much in the same way a woman enters
>      prostitution. first you do it for fun. then you do it for
>      your friends. eventually you do it for money"
>      my apologies to any prostitutes on the list.
>
>>>>>

To be completely humourless about it, whoever said it was a fool who knew
nothing about prostitution.

Actually, you do it
a) to support your heroin habit
b) to support your boyfriend's heroin habit
c) because you're a slave who's been kidnapped and sold to a pimp in a
foreign country or the big city who won't hesitate to kill you if you
misbehave
d) because you're on the streets and desperate
and so on.

None of that sounds like HCB to me.

Rob.
Robert Appleby
http://www.robertappleby.com


Ah, actually, I just wanted to know if HBC said, "Photography doesn't
interest me, people do." And if so, in what publication?

Thanks

Craig